My own opinion of Zip drives:  they're like a bottle of tequila, a lit cigar, and a stick of dynamite.  Have you considered using a flash drive to exchange data?

http://grc.com/tip/codfaq8.htm

Keep in mind that a BAD DISK can make good drives DEAD.

Click of death is usually followed by someone that takes the killer disk and BREAKS the drive on 2 or more other machines before they decide that the disk is bad.

http://grc.com/tip/clickdeath.htm

There is one rare type of ABSOLUTELY AND INSTANTLY
FATAL CONTAGION that has been absolutely confirmed! . . .

The media inside a Zip cartridge is completely flexible like that of a floppy diskette. Jaz cartridges use a rigid media similar to a hard disk drive, but Zip drives use thin and flexible mylar-based magnetic disks.

In rare cases, when a Zip drive's heads are being loaded into the cartridge, they snag upon the outer edge of the mylar disk which is spinning at 2,941 revolutions per minute. The result is nothing short of a total catastrophe:

Either one or both of the drive's read/write heads are usually ripped from their mountings and left dangling by their electrical interconnection wires. But while this is happening the outer edge of the rapidly spinning mylar Zip disk is significantly torn and shredded.

The drive's built-in on-board brain doesn't know what has happened, so it unloads and reloads the heads many times as it's been instructed to do when it is unable to locate, read, or write the data inside a cartridge. And the user hears a repeating "Click ... Click ... Click" sound, followed by an error report from whatever software was trying to perform the data transfer.

Now Hold Onto Your Seats, Because Here
Comes an Even More Horrible Catastrophe!
The unwitting user, who is now naturally quite concerned about the cartridge's irretrievable data, finds some other Zip drive, perhaps another one that they own, or maybe one belonging to a friend or co-worker. And they innocently insert their cartridge which now contains a mangled, torn, and shredded mylar disk!

This INSTANTLY kills the second Zip drive as its heads are snagged and ripped off their mountings by the torn and frayed edge of the KILLER CARTRIDGE!! This really happens.